I wish I could keep up 80MPH on the M1 between Leeds and Loughborough!!!!! There’s way too much traffic!!

Last time I drove it… I was in the centre lane overtaking… at around 70… undertaking traffic in the outside lane! Bizarre!

“I was on that flight, cabin crew were excellent, everyone evacuated within 2 minutes “

Abyssmal performance… the airline deserve to be fined! Everyone should have been off 30 seconds sooner!

The one problem with a blended wing civil airliner is the emergency exits. Civil aircraft have to be able to get everyone off in 90 seconds using half the exits. So, the position of exits is limited to the leading edge… or the trailing edge (You could put them in the floor… but what happens if the landing gear collapses!).

Yup… Just a mechanic with a screwdriver… which is exactly what would be used in the manufacturing of the aircraft… It’ll be a case of “Yeah, that’s tight… that’ll do… rather than actually measuring the exact torque on the screw.

“i looked in a twenty year old plane book ive got about future fighters and stuff and it shows the hughes notar in cross section and from the engine there is a shaft to the big fan in the fat tail boom. if the engine stopped, i think this fan would stop?”

In a gas turbine engine, the parts are allowed to move, very freely. So if the engine did cut out… it would still turn over, and because the helicopter maintains forward speed under auto-rotation, there is still air going through the engine to turn the engine blades. This means that that fan providing power for the NOTAR would still turn.

Just though of something else actually….. The NOTAR fan could be connected to the main rotor system, so these could power it in an emergency… like auto rotation. Just a thought!

Here’s a thought… How easy would it be to bring an airliner down by starting a fire? I guess you could get it going in the toilets… and before you talk about smoke detectors… anyone can solve that… it’s called cling film! Should all cigarette lighters and matches be banned from aircraft?